Word: scribblers
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...portraits, an old Mughal genre Akhlaq helped to revitalize, are seductively simple at first - one figure, apparently a writer of some kind, is depicted musing tranquilly beneath a tree with a notebook. But a closer look reveals his camouflage socks, suggesting he's no entranced poet but perhaps a scribbler of terrorist screeds...
...from the apartment he and his pediatrician wife Alicja shared in a working-class district of Warsaw, he pounded out articles and gave interviews right up to his final hospitalization. In contrast to Kapuscinski's astounding output, Herodotus left only The Histories. In its opening passage, the ancient scribbler declares that his purpose in writing - stunningly ambitious for the era - is "to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time." The Histories, concludes Kapuscinski, is an "expression of man's struggle against time, against the fragility of memory ... If he doesn't write down what...
...scribbler who managed to make a meditation on rare flowers into a film with not one but two versions of himself in the starring roles is not, he says, always entirely thrilled with the business of putting his innermost thoughts on multiplex screens...
...predicts "the inexorable death" of his rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred to use any man so indecently and scurrilously...
...that enough to discourage some overweight and pasty-faced scribbler who's hard at work on a coming-of-age novel set in Sandusky, Ohio, between the wars? Not in itself. He's fueled by the unshakable belief that his novel, Hortense Be Thy Name, is good enough to overcome any odds...